Dreams of police are much more related to unnamed people, much more related to strangers, and more related to peers than dreams in general. They are less related to animals, less related to insects, and less related to fantastic beings.

Police dreams are less related to happiness, less related to sadness, and less related to grief and sorrow.

Dreams of police are much more related to home, more related to work, and more related to human-made places than dreams in general. They are less related to natural places and less related to magical places.

Dreams of police are much more related to aggressive acts, more related to eating and drinking, and much more related to death than dreams in general.

Dreams of police are more related to bad dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams, less related to recurring dreams, and less related to sleep paralysis.

Dreams of police are more related to touch than dreams in general. They are less related to taste.

You can gain insight from thinking about any dream, no matter how strange. Only you, as the dreamer, have final say on what your dream may or may not mean. Each dream is unique.

The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience police in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.

Our emotions in dreams can help us understand its meaning. Pay attention to how you felt in the dream. Pay attention to how you feel about police in dreams. See how you feel about police now, in your waking life.

This interpretation is from ""The Dream Interpretation Dictionary: Symbols, Signs, and Meanings" and is provided by J.M. DeBord aka "RadOwl". He is the author of several acclaimed books about dreaming, the host of The Dreams That Shape Us podcast, and is a moderator of r/Dreams, one of the largest dream sharing communities on the internet. Police officers in dreams are among the most common “generic characters,” meaning they are not usually depicted as someone you know and instead are like actors playing a role or extras in a movie. The high frequency of reports of police characters in dreams probably stems from the wide variety of ways they can be used as symbolism. To begin, police officers are associated with authority, rules, settling disputes, justice and determining right from wrong. Now consider how those associations connect with areas of life, and how a police officer can be used as symbolism. For example, defying a cop can symbolize defying authority or rules—either specific authorities or rules, or just in general. Running from a cop can symbolize fear of getting caught doing something wrong. Police officers make arrests. See: Arresting Police officers restrain people. Lack of restraint can mean you “shoot first and ask questions later,” meaning you react to tense situations by getting angry or defensive. Or you pursue sexual encounters even when they cause trouble or put you at risk. Police are associated with conformity. Police in dreams can symbolize societal or cultural forces that promote or enforce conformity and norms of conduct and behavior. Police out to get you can mean that you are knowingly doing something that’s wrong, illegal, or reckless. For example, people with drinking or drug habits will dream about police searching or detaining them because police enforce alcohol-and-drug laws. If you make a decision to clean up your life, you might dream about police officers at your home removing unruly guests or intoxicants, as a way of symbolizing removing something causing trouble in your life. Dreaming about running from the police can mean you don’t want to control or restrain a habit or behavior—or even acknowledge there is a problem. It can show that you deny your inner authority, authority structures, blame, responsibility, or your conscience. Police are used in dreams when you feel that an injustice has been committed against you, or that you have been unfairly treated. Police can be used to symbolize taking the blame for something—rightly or not. For example, you know that a snafu at work was your doing, but you haven’t been exposed as the source. That night you dream about police searching your computer because you know it’s where the evidence can be found. Looking for evidence is another common theme in dreams involving police, and it arises most often when you’re trying to figure why and how something happened, or are protecting yourself from blame. See: Detectives Police in dreams can connect with issues of privacy or intrusion. You might dream about the police because you wish someone would butt out of your life or stop making trouble. Or someone is behaving in a way that makes you uncomfortable, crosses a line, or just isn’t right. It might not be illegal behavior, but you still dream about the police because you wish an outside authority would intervene or correct the person. The possibilities for symbolism go on and on. For example, a recurring dream about making a right turn and crashing into the back of a police car symbolizes that the dreamer feels punished for doing the right thing. She had turned in her brother to the police for committing a serious crime, and their father resented her for it. A dream about a police officer coming into a scene as the dreamer is rolling a joint symbolizes his self-knowledge that his marijuana usage is putting him in danger of getting caught. A dream featuring the dreamer in a role of a cop ignoring a crime symbolizes a situation where the dreamer witnessed blatant cheating on a test and didn’t say anything about it. See also: Addicts, Arresting, Chasing, Cheating on tests, Courts, Crime, Detectives, Drugs, Guilty, Intruders, Jails, Judges, Lawyers